Keane
- #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 42 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,486since 1950
Keane over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Keane has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #4,118 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #2,985 | 38 |
| 2013 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #2,511 | 49 |
| 2009 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 2008 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #3,044 | 31 |
| 2002 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #2,608 | 33 |
| 1998 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #2,047 | 42 |
| 1995 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #2,467 | 29 |
| 1991 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,231 | 7 |
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| 1965 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
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| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Keane! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1956, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Keane is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Keane in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Keane
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 334 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #6,803)
- 1,568 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #6,803)
- 3,654 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1996 at #2,047 (42 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 32,706
- Highest: 1 in 32,706 boys born in 2012 were named Keane (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,047 in 1996, was only 1 in 45,102 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 25.6% of all boys named Keane (380) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 28 | #3,552 (1957) | #3,671 |
| 1960s | 49 | #2,549 (1969) | #3,094 |
| 1970s | 108 | #2,279 (1971) | #3,290 |
| 1980s | 170 | #2,169 (1987) | #2,973 |
| 1990s | 310 | #2,047 (1996) | #2,499 |
| 2000s | 344 | #2,213 (2007) | #3,164 |
| 2010s | 380 | #2,238 (2012) | #3,143 |
| 2020s | 97 | #4,118 (2021) | #5,746 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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